Tag Archives: environment
Expose cap-and-trade costs
Government gets more of our money, and utility companies get the blame when they pass on the tax increase to consumers. To counter the administration’s attempt to bury this tax increase in our utility bills, I am sponsoring legislation to require utility companies to itemize on customer utility bills the cap-and-trade taxes that utility companies are passing on to their customers. Continue reading
Green Hustler
Meet Van Jones: The 40-year-old professional community activist has rocketed to fame by melding racial grievance and claims of economic injustice with the increasingly faddish orthodoxy of environmentalism. Continue reading
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Vox, Overrated
Sometimes politics has to take a backseat to science. By Henry I. Miller In 1897, at the urging of an amateur mathematician, the Indiana house of representatives unanimously passed a measure that redefined the calculation of the value of pi, … Continue reading
